Description: The Mortality and Longevity Research Program Steering Committee (MLPSC) is interested in examining the latest evidence on the impact of dementia and dementia-related conditions, including Alzheimer’s, on mortality at the older ages. Neurological mortality has been increasing with dementia-related deaths having gone up significantly in the last few decades. Dementia may play a contributing role in many risk factors, including physical decline, vulnerability to infections, falls and other injuries, bed rest complications, exacerbated comorbid conditions.1 This is the first research project the MLPSC has sponsored on this topic.

Description: Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation Initiatives and Programs: Call for Essays

Description: A call for essays from the Society of Actuaries Research Institute's Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program, focusing on the potential impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on human longevity and its consequences for modeling future survival/mortality. Details submission rules, sample topics, and awards for essays exploring this subject.

Description: In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken an increasingly prominent role as a potential tool for improving processes from standard internet searches to its use in improving actuarial modeling through machine learning and other applications. The use of AI models and machine learning could lead additional and ongoing improvement of predictive capabilities in health care reserves resulting in potentially more accurate reserve estimates, financial statements and decreases in model variance.

Description: This is a request for surrender experience data for fixed-rate deferred annuities for the years 2023-2024 from the SOA Research Institute and LIMRA, outlining goals for updating a prior study and offering detailed outputs through a paid subscription to Experience Studies Pro.

Description: Call For Essays: Managing Extreme Event Risk-Reinsurance Tools and Solutions

Description: Call for essays on catastrophe modeling for life & health insurance focusing on impacts of the L.A. wildfires. Topics include risk modeling, insurability considerations, catastrophe event management, and AI's role. Submissions open until June 2025, offering up to $10,000 in awards for selected essays. Publication will follow with author attribution.

Description: Impact of Family Structure on Aspects of Retirement

Description: The SOA is seeking proposals to study how recent U.S. obesity trends—especially the use of anti-obesity medications—may impact future mortality across demographics for actuarial applications

Description: The Living to 100 monograph is composed of the papers, essays, panel discussions, teaching and keynote sessions presented at the symposium.